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quirks

  • plural
    of quirk.
    quirk
    noun
    a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism.

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These quintessentially parochial quirks are blended with local customs such as singing the Indian national anthem every morning or celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Hindu festival.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Karina Longworth loves Los Angeles for all its quirks and charms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They did not attempt to find the quirks in this familiar score, but rather leaned into its inherent merits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

So he remained shut in at the mercy of Santa Sofía de la Piedad's loving eyes and Úrsula’s mental quirks, learning in the narrow world of the house whatever his grandmothers explained to him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez